‘Goals-plus-the-outstanding-Niall-McElroy’ were the undoing of Kildress at Aghaloo today as they fell by 1-12 to 3-9 on the banks of The Blackwater in another exciting and very entertaining game, well refereed by Gary Gormley. From the early stages The Tones were always on the back foot on this one and whilst they worked manfully to keep pulling Aghaloo back to within reach, as soon as they’d do that the home side always seemed to have the wee bit extra needed to push ahead again. Kildress played plenty of good football, not least in the move that led to Eoin Brannigan’s first-half goal that left them just two points down at the break, 1-4 to 1-6.
In the second half the best they could do was to come within a point but with Niall McElroy inspirational for his team, Aghaloo’s further two goals, both well-taken on the break, left Kildress with too much to do. They pushed hard for an equalizing goal in the final minutes but it just wouldn’t come. Kildress relied heavily on Matty McGuigan (0-6) and Philip Lennon (0-4) for scores and had good performances too from the trojan Dean McNally, Marty Loughran, Corey Holland, Johnny Connolly and Michael Crawley.
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